PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: 28 October 2024

At www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au (“our”, “we”, “us”), we are committed to protecting your privacy as an online visitor to our website. We use the information we collect about you to maximize the services that we provide to you. www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au respects the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you and adheres to the Australian Privacy Principles. Please read our Privacy Policy below carefully.

By accessing www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au, you agree to the Privacy Policy which is set out in this document. The Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your conduct on our website.

This Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms of service applicable to www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au. We do not make any representations about third party websites.

We recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual (“personal information”). This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au, will be dealt with.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. All modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on this website. This Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes. We welcome your comments and feedback.

Collection of Personal Information

Our site is managed by Squarespace. All Squarespace sites use visitor data to work correctly. Our website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Personal information is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted. We receive and store information you enter on our website or give us in any other way from time to time, for example, you may provide basic contact information such as your name, phone number, address, and email address to enable us to respond to visitor questions and comments about us and our services, and to mail e-newsletters. We may also collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, change your content or email preferences, respond to a survey, or communicate with www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au customer support.

Credit card information is not stored by us on our servers.

Cookies
A cookie is a small file placed in your web browser that collects information about your web browsing behaviour. Use of cookies allows a website to tailor its configuration to your needs and preferences. Cookies do not access information stored on your computer or any personal information (e.g. name, address, email address or telephone number). Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of a website.

Storage and Security of Information

We will use all reasonable means to protect the confidentiality of your personal information while in our possession or control. All information www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au receives from its customers through our website is protected by our secure server. www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au’s secure server software encrypts all customer information before it is sent to us. Furthermore, all customer data collected is secured against unauthorised use or access.

We will not knowingly share any of your personal information with any third party other than our service providers who assist us in providing the information and/or services we are providing to you. For example, when you submit information to our website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Mailchimp for storage.

Some of our service providers may be overseas and may not be subject to Australian Privacy Laws. Please contact us if you require more specific details.

Usage and Disclosure of Information

Personal information that you submit on www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted.

We may use personal information collected from you for the purpose of providing you with direct marketing material, updates regarding our website and information in the form of a newsletter. This will only apply if you have registered or subscribed to such publications by registering your details with us. If you wish to cease receiving such information, you may unsubscribe at any time and your request will be actioned as soon as possible.

We may from time to time need to disclose certain information, which may include your personal information, to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au may also use your personal information to protect the rights, property or safety of www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au, its customers or third parties.

If there is a change of control in one of our businesses (whether by merger, sale, or otherwise), or a sale or transfer of its assets, customer information, which may include your personal information, could be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality, or could be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. We would only disclose your information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.

Any non-personal information, communications and material you send to this website or to us by email, or which we obtain from third parties without promises of confidentiality, may be kept, used and disclosed by us on a non-confidential basis. We are free to use and reproduce any such information freely, and for any purpose whatsoever. Specifically, we will be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose, including developing, manufacturing or marketing products.

Third Parties
www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au does not and will not sell or deal in personal or customer information. We will never disclose your personal information to a third party except the necessary information required by providers of products or services you have purchased or to protect the rights, property or safety of www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au, its customers or third parties or if required by law. Details are only supplied to a third party supplier when it is required by law, for goods or services which you have purchased or to protect www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au copyright, trademarks and other legal rights.

Links

This website may contain links to other websites. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that www.essentialelementsoutdoorplayclub.com.au is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Access to Information

We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove, or deactivate it by emailing essentialelementsplay@gmail.com and we will respond as soon as possible.

Further Questions or Concerns

If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or the use of your personal information, please contact us by emailing essentialelementsplay@gmail.com.

For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website https://www.oaic.gov.au/.